The Sun. — London, England, 1838-04-25 00:00:00

1''' ' .. ....,,.. COURT CIRCULAR. 1' 4 er Majesty and her august Mother, attended by Lady ,;1 4 1*baro, arrived at the New Palace a quarter before five ock yesterday afternoon, in a carriage and four, escorted i n 3 ' , 'l l ,, ptrty of lancers, from Windsor. Her Majesty's suite, 13 'rg Hon. Misses Murray and Paget, Lady Gardiner, v 5 ...(,? 4 3 Lehten, Miss Davys, Lady Mary Stopford (in ‘_ l npT on the Duchess of Kent) and Colonel Wemyss, fol -4'1'71 in two carriages and four. Her Majesty was received the Palace by the Master of the Horse, and by Lord u,::!),ner and th e H on . C . M urray, t h e L or d an d G room i n ~ dung. I,3he Queen honoured the performance of Otelle at her Ma- Theatre last evening with her presence. Her Majesty b y ' lly ,ett at the theatre at half-past eight o'clock, accompanied Afart" buchess of Kent, and attended by Lady Barham, Lady Y TAtopford (in waiting on the Duchess of Kent), the Lord ‘l,`,l3,nberlain, Lord Gardner, Hon. C. Murray, and Colonel orr, yes. t Cr. Buchanan had an interview yesterday with the Chan re h ,; e Committee of Baronets met on Monday, at the Cla th-',,°11 Hotel, when a communication having been read from Be S ecretary of State, that the petition to the Queen of the jlt"roliets (grounded on the royal patents and charters of King fer r el I.), for place at her Majesty's coronation, had been re ,arne_cl for the consideration of the Earl Marshal, the Committee to the unanimous decisiori, that a petition shall also b . e ;r4l::llttielraitto the Court of Claims on the 28th instant,. in a legal determination may be had on the question. lomittee again assembled on Thursday for business of V r t 4 tnoo to the Order. 0 , 0 l ' co unt Melbourne arrived in town at half-past three A ° T e ' ( yesterday aft ernoon , f r om Windsor Castle. Joh r ' W. P. Campbell, M. P., had an interview with Lord 14 , 11 ; 'Russell yesterday, at the Home-office. 13 count H ovfick came to town yesterday, from Learning , Warwickshire. F. ' ASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. dog a ptain and Mt s. V er n on Harcourt, R.N.. a t th e L aos- Hotel, Dover-street ; Dowager Lady and Miss Lang m, at ditto, from Richmond ; the Rev. Sir Thomas Geary Hart., and Lady Cullom, at the Green Park Hotel, e' o e , ead il em' lY, from Hardwick House, Suffolk ; Mr. and Mrs. st -ne wall and family, at the Cavendish Hotel, Jermyn- O s et, from their seat, Delbury Hall, Ludlow ; the Earl of ~.'''nghatn, at ditto, from Staffordshire • George Ward, Esq., ,ffl.ditto, from his seat, Debourne L ' odge, Cowes, Isle of ight ; General Clayton, at ditto ; .Toseph Bailey, jun., Esq., 31 P. at ditto fro h" t Glen Usk Park, Crickowell ; Air. and Mrs. ampton. H. Penk l y s n s s ea and family, at ditto, from South- DEPARTURES. Gencral and Mrs. Wyndham from the Cavendish Hotel, eirrnln-street, for their seat, COckermouth Castle ; Mr. and Ca Donald Campbell, from ditto, for Paris ; the Rev. H. mpbell, from ditto for ditto ; Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, o ,?in ditto, for Dover ' ; Mr. and Mrs. H. Brownlow, from ,;" 0 , for Ireland ; Captain and Mrs. Penrose, from ditto, for ..arnbridge. CLERICAL INTELLIdENCE. The R PREFERMENTS, &C. v o i d —el'. Robert Sergeant, to the vicarage of Stoke Prior, by the cession of the Rev. W. Godfrey. Patrons, the e , 4 1 , 11 1 and Chapter of Worcester. vi e he Rev. J. Heberden, late curate of Stone, Kent, to the p o : t atteof West Thurrock, vacant by the death of the Rev. J. it,h'r• Patron Whitbread, Esq. , eboo ‘T Rey. James Tate, M. A., master of the grammar tat Richmond, to the vicarage of Easby, near Richmond, rkshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. C. Readshaw. , atr on, _ Rev. Queen. 45 v. Isaac Close, to the perpetual curacy of Kirkby p!ellsworth, vacant then death of the Rev. Thomas Buxton. ',l l ,'en, the Bishop of Cter. vi e ,,, he Rev. James Gisborne, of Yoxall, Staffordshire, to the Re ago of Croxall, Derbyshire, vacant by the death of the S. IlollsorthY Patron, the Lord Chancellor. n T he. Rev. Edward . Tracy, a:younger son of Hanbury Tracy, 9., Is to be p resented to the living of Sully, i n th i s county ; cl the present rector tile Rev. David Jones, is to succeed the living of Panteg, Monmounthshire, vacant by the de tease of the Rev. L. Leeson. —Glamorgan Guardian. The Rev. John Pollock, to the church and parish of Balder- Sleek, Dumbartonshire. I The Rey. D octor G eorge S. Smith, one of the junior fel bit/vvttlurs Of Trinity College, Dublin, to th e li v i ng o f Aug ,eher, county Fermanagh, vacant by the death of the Rev. u r. Russell. - - --- The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne will have a grand dinner party on Friday evening, at Lansdowne house. His Excellency the Russian Ambassador will give tk sumptuous entertainment on Monday next, at Ashburnham_ bouse, to Prince Esterhezy, Prince Soutzo, and the whole of the diplomatic corps. The Countess de Grey has issued cards for a grand c oncert on the 11th of next month, at her elegant mansion in S t• James's-square. Th e Duke of Devonshire will give a splendid ball t' he 17 t h o f M ay, at D evons hi re- h ouse, t h e eve o f the wirlring-room, in celebration of he r M a j es ty' s bi r th-d ay . I t exceed in elegance any entertainment given for years past will magnificent mansion. We . understand her Majesty of p m rese nt. His Grace will give his first ball on the 11th next onth.l. Th e appointment of State-Housekeeper of the Palace at Hampton-Court has become vacant by the ea sn i s si ster e of Lady Emily Montagu, daughter of the late and to of t h e present Duke of Manchester. Her ladyship was trave 58th y ear, and unmarried., The Duke, her brother, is lling in Italy. of The m premature demise of Mrs. Francis Baring, wi fe .. o r. Francis Thornhill Baring, has again placed the families s,,,'„rd Ashburton, and Sir Thomas Baring, Bart., of Strat d ark, Hants, in mourning. Mrs. Baring was the youngest tOuialirtier,?f the late Hon. Sir George Grey, G. C. 8., brother of s. L „,'Jrrey, and was married to Mr. Baring, eldest son 1 4411 4 ; homas, in 1825. She has left an infant family to or loss nt Orloff, the new Russian Special Minister to i 7 o v a ito rna , Court, is the celebrated General and diplomatist Eenza ti ti 3 visited this country on two special missions. Some . arid t h° 4 has been created among the Russian nobles in Paris fort l i dd l cousitry, by an or d er f rom t h e R uss i an Government in f orei mg subjects of hi s Imperial Majesty purchasing estates 4t tsn countrios. Alo n d a he meeting of the Baronet's Committee, held on by Olaf ' ' , at the Clarendon H o t e l Committee-room, attended was br r standing counse l , W i ll i am C raw f or d, E sq ., a letter thei r i 7 i u ght under their notice from Lord John Russell, to testy Sec retary, R. Broun, Esq., stating that her Ma- P la ce a a n s d -een g r aciously pleased to refer their petition " for de gree of vestments of estate at the coronation, as the sixth belongs'arsal hereditary dignity of these realms," to the Ear hto tvhom the arrangements of all matters properly LEste r h azy, the D u k e o f L e i ns t er , M ar quis 01 ..Z:g0, Lo r d Dysart, Lord Allen, Lord Blayney, Lord h o Hon. Col. M o l yneux, H on . C o l. L e i ces t er Stan notir-e s' ;,"°n. Mr. B yng, and a long l i st o f f as hi ona bl es ho moodu the Saint James's Theatre with their presence, on r i ght , and to w i tness t h e rev i va l o f t h e A m b assa d r ess, do and Le an d er i n t h e f ormer o f w hi c h M r. B ra h am Of ighted (Ibex his audie nce b y hi s master l y execut i on o f t h e mus ic f ro m h e Duke D'Osuna is expected at Mivart's Hotel, Paris, t o b e present at the coronation of her Majesty. IC T he Counte ss o f Ch es t er fi e ld arr i ve d a t Ch es t er fi e ld use, from the Noble Earl's hunting lodge at Newmarket, p i e re she arrived from Belvoir Castle, the seat of her Noble itd h ilel e, the D u ke of Rutland. H er Ladyship and her friend, e Y Alice Peel, despite the severity of the weather, were on ~c o urse daily, in their carriages, during the race week. i k .he Duke of Newcastle and the Ladies Pelham Cl oton arrived in Portman-square on Saturday last, from crotraber Pa r k, f or t h e season. His Grace has added to his f the Dukege estate in Nottinghamshire by the purchase o n , of Norfolk's princely domain of Worksop Manor, that county. t i4 L t ord and Lady Gardner arrived at Lord Dinorben's, CA e , House, South Audley-street, yesterday,. from Windsor Note, where his Lordship has been Lord in Waiting on her esty during the stay of the Court. tl Pitzwilliam arrived at I\eforttmer House, Bel the„,„ On --quare, from Tunbridge-wells. Viscountess Milton, Pas noble Earl's daughter-in-law, has left Grosvenor-squaprae Park, Le to, the recess with the Earl of Liverpool, at Buxted r ",1.53, Suffolk. t Lord the Duke of Edward Somerset, uncle to dueVort, having retired from Parliament, has been travelling th se n e lthe wi nte r i n Germany. Last month his Lordship and B aderi d : augin ora were at Manheim, in the grand duchy of The Earl o f bode at Errol, master of the Queen's hounds, L oil Yn ' , il l e u e r T . P a nied by a numerous stud, taken up . his a The hounds meet at different places in the forest Ttc:nuaYs, Wednesdays, and Fridays. as st4t2 Countess of Cadogan has not been indisposed vk i _ et ` by a morning cotemporary. Pres e understand that Miss Coutts Burdett is to be Larlited to-morrow at the drawing-room, by her aunt, Mrs. to hay _ ar n• It is stated that the Duchess of Sutherland was he boteo presented the wealthy Miss, had the grandson of the / f Norfolk succeded in obtaining her hand. s tz li ltr• AT ISLINGTON.—INQUEST ON THE SUF tii,(lo::tetrs:--treYeetsterday an Inquest was held at the King's Head, , Islington, before Mr. Stirling, the Coroner, on ,_ l e bodies of Elisha and Henry Cockerell and John Glenn, ‘,athree unfortunate individuals who lost their lives in the late e t: i s- au t r i edd l i t s o e n .p s l fi a r e e e , , which li took place at the fire-work manufactory, gton. In this case, which was . not . con_ tvitoes:_hen we went to press yesterday, the examination of li ey i 8 having concluded, the Jury were unanimous be cia_ng the fire to be entirely accidental. A verdict of—" Ac sital death," was then recorded. lIIIRIGHTON BLOODS. Some miscreants, while r,erarribulafing our streets on Thursday night last, amused !intier.nselves by ringing and destroying the door bells of the in tthabtitant, of High -street and School-hill. We understand forcedwith but few exceptions the bells and knockers were . from nearly every house from the Tower Clock to the r Id6e.--.Patriot, LITERAT URE. NO URMAIIAL -3 Vols. Coburn —London, 1838. We are indebted for this tale to the pen of Mr. Quin, author of " A Steam-voyage down the Danube," and other works, which have met with considerable success. The scene of the present fiction is laid in the East, at one of the most stirring and eventful periods in oriental history—the close of the sixteenth century, when the celebrated sultan Acbar sat on the throne of the Moguls, and held his court in the splendid city of Lahore. The incidents of the nar rative are supposed to be related by a story-teller of Cashmere, " itinerant reciters of prose and poetical fictions being still," says the author, " as is well known to tra vellers, as common in the East, as they were in the days of Homer." Mr. Quin ably sustains this character of a Cashmerian improvisatore, for, in no one instance that we have been able to detect on a hasty perusal of his Nour mahal, has lie been guilty of even the slightest solecism of thought, feeling, or description. He has evidently read and—what is still more to the purpose—digested his ma terials with uncommon care, reminding us in this instance, of the late Mr. Upham, whose tale of " Karmath" dis played a consummate acquaintance with the habits and pe culiarities of the East, the result of diligent and long-con tinued research. But Mr. Quin has this advantage over the mere oriental scholar. He has himself been a tra veller in eastern climes ; is familiar with the manners and modes of life of the Indigetes, and knows therefore the exact spots in which to make his " bul-buls" sing, and his flowers blossom. It would have been as well if all those who within the last twelve years have laid the scenes of their poems and Annual stories in the East, had taken as much pains to acquaint themselves with localities as the author of Nourmahal, for then we should not have seen mountains rearing their lofty forms to the sky where moun tains never existed ; and translucent lakes, not to be met with in any map, spreading out in front of beautiful city palaces, for no other reason than that young lovers tray wander by moon-light along their banks, listening to the warblings of birds whose untoward peculiarity it is to con fine their melodies exclusively to Europe. Mr. Quin's opening chapters display lavish powers cf description. His sketch of the country lying beyond the grand chain of the Ilimalas ; of the pastoral character of its inhabitants ; of their stupendous rocks, and glens, and cataracts, the very smallest of which might put Helvellyn and Lodore to the blush ; and more especially, of their daily habits of life —these various sketches are detailed with great accuracy, and occasionally in quite a poetic spirit, such as in the pass ing, vivid allusion to that magnificent bird the flamingo " that sometimes lightens in the firmament like a meteor." The chief charm of Nourmahal indeed is its descriptions, for the author is not so much at home in grappling with the strong points of character ; many of his personages— with the exception of the highly-finished portrait of sultan Acbar's Prime Minister—being deficient in the requisite mark and likelihood. But in sketching the grand and beau tiful features of external nature ; in heaping up incident upon incident, so as never to allow the story to stand still or flag in interest ; in imparting reality to these incidents, without investing them with too much of a matter-of fact air ; and colouring his narrative with just enough of romance, to rivet the attention of all lovers of the wild and the wonderful—here Mr. Quin is as successful as the most ambitious novelist could possibly desire to be. There are few things in modern literature more impressive, in their way, than the description of the passage of Mangeli and her husband Kazim Ayes, with their infant daughter Nourmahal, across the desert on their road to Lahore ; of the deceitful mirrhage which leads them to suppose that they are approaching the terminus of their labours ; of the tiger hunt in the depths of the jungle ; of the battle between Suleiman and Mirtas among the defiles of the Himalas ; and —though last, not least—of the splendors of the imperial city of Lahore. As a favourable specimen of the author's manner, we quote his sketch of the young Nourmahal, which, though highly coloured, just halts discreetly on this side of exaggeration : Mher_ul.Nissa resumed her instrument; but whilst she was still preluding to the air which she intended to play, two of the principal strings snapped asunder with a loud and, as some felt, an ominous sound, like the shriek of an evil genius. In order to dissipate the sudden gloom which this incident created throughout the company, she rose and or. dered Kanun to take the flageolet, and, while another of her attenda struck the double-stringed harp, she stood in the midst of the circle OF some wonderful statue fresh from the hand of the artist. The music of the two performers at first lamented the fate of a Hindu shepherdess whom the god Vishnu transformed into marble, lest, during his tempo rary absence from the earth, she might surrender her affections to an or dinary mortal. A rapid transition was then made to the moat charm ing pastoral strains, resembling those which the former companions of the metamorphosed maid poured forth from their simple reeds, when after seeking her for many a day over the fields where she had been ac customed to attend her flocks, they at length discovered her near a foun tain, as they thought asleep. They hoped that they might awaken her from her lethargy, by addressing her in the tones which she most loved to hear—the songs of her youth; but she remained insensible to their appeals, renewed though they were from day to day. At length a young unknown shepherd, who, with a lyre slung on his back, joined the group one morning as they were proceeding to the fountain, mingled the loilliant notes of his instrument with those which had hitherto failed I. produce any effect in the sleeping girl. Suddenly the marble trembled and became relaxed—the glow of genial warmth overspread the whole figure—blushes kindled on the cheeks—the eyelids separated, and from beneath them shot forth a living fire—the arms moved—and while the rustics, gazing with rapture on the miraculous change that was going on, imparted to their music the brightening joy by which they were in. spired, the strange shepherd, taking the maid by the hand, called all her limbs into the most exquisite action, descriptive of the happiness of those who, after a long separation, are again joined in the sweet consciousness of mutual affection. Mher.ul-Nissa answered to each variation in the strain with irresistible truth and power of expression. The statue, veiled in drapery, seemed for awhile without vitality—breathless — cold —but still beautiful, even in apparent death. No feature or limb moved, while the airs of the sheperdesses emulated each other in endeavouring to recal her to emotion; but when the well-known music of the god touched her ear the effect was electric upon the whole assembly. Her figure appeared to warm by degrees from utter insensibility to a divine rapture. The sentiment that actuated her entire being was shown in at titudes and movements, refined far above those exhibitions to which the grosser sense gives rise. Selirn followed her steps, with a degree of ad. miration which he knee' not how to repress within the ordinary bounds of decorum. He was beside himself with delight ; and when in gliding before him her veil chanced to be wafted from her head, euddedly dis closing to his view all the charms of her unrivalled countenance, blush. ing with confusion for curls an untoward accident, his bentled knee, his upward glowing looks, his hand pressed on hers, whilst he exclaimed, Nourmalial' (Light of the Harem), at once proclaimed feelings which, though they found no words, announced that from that hour they were, for good or for evil, to rule his subsequent existence." THE BIOGRAPHICAL TREASURY. Longman, Lon'ion, 1838. This is one of the most useful, practical works of the day. It is the production of Mr. Maunder, author of the " Treasury of Knowledge," and contains biographical sketches of eminent persons of all ages and nations, from the earliest periods of history dawn to the present time. We have just dipped into the volume, and find it, on the whole, remarkably accurate in its details, though here and there there is a trivial error. Such as where, in speaking of Robespierre, the author draws a distinction between the " Jacobins" and the " Mountains," whereas they were one and the same faction. The work is brought out in a most commodious form, and at the cheapest possible price, and cannot fail to become popular, for it is most unquestionably the best and completest production of the sort in the language. THE SOLDIER'S LIBRARY. Cadell, London, 1838. A work wholly of a military character, and evidently the production of one who has seen much service as a soldier. Some of the observations addressed to those who desire to distinguish themselves in the profession, display all that terse and practical good sense which is the result of long worldly experience. POEMS. BY J. KENYON. Moron, London, 1838. The poems in this collection are characterized by taste and feeling, especially the sonnets, in the construction of which the author evinces near ly as much skill as Worth worth. He has, however, fallen on evil times, for the very sight of a peens now a-days acts like a scare-crow, and frightens people from its perusal. GUIDE THROUGH SWITZERLAND. Bailey, London, 1838. Those who feel disposed to make the tour of Switzerland this summer, cannot do better than make this little Guide book the companion of their travels, for it will furnish them in abundance with all the practical information they can possibly desire. Mr. Thomas Williams, lately tried and acquitted at the Old Bailey on a charge of forging a will, was received throughout his progress to his estate near Carnarvon in the most triumphant manner ; the people of that town went out in procession, thousands in number, to meet him; they yoked themselves to his carriage horses, and drew him in triumph to his hotel, when he addressed the assemblage. The same honours awaited him on leaving the town, the people still drawing him in triumph to his house, Brynbras Castle. Se veral villages and towns in the neighbourhood illuminated their houses on the occasion. These gratifying testimonies of public feeling canno t but afford some consolati on t o M r . Wil liams for all he has undergone. TO THE CANAL NAVIGATION PRO PRIETORS IN GREAT BRITAIN. At a period when energetic and extensive efforts are being made for the formation of Railway communications, it is perative upon the Committees and Proprieters of Canals to come forward and render their respective navigations as per fect as possible. Many of the canals have remained in nearly the same condition for several years; are needlessly cir cuitous, are in a defective state of repair in their locks, towing-paths, small, inconvenient, and even dangerous state of their tunnels—arc inadequately supplied with water, and require deepening and cleansing. It is most important these de fects should no longer remain, and whilst guarding against improvident expenditure, that the several canal works of whatever kind should be rendered effective to the increased and increasing wants and trade of the country;—it cannot otherwise be expected that canals will maintain their present position against the formidable rivalry now organising in the midst of them. The canal proprietors in their several districts, v, ho are so much interested as shareholders, and who are trustees for distant parties, are bound to attend to the efficient state of the canals in their own neighbourhood ; and where there does not exist in the local Committees energy or inclination to effect essential improvements, it becomes the duty of the proprietors themselves at their annual general meetings to elect such per sons as are alive to the present state of canal affairs, before they irrecoverably lose that portion of their trade which proper attention may now permanently secure. Good management is now become an indispensable requisite to every Canal Company. Upon some of the canals the trade is much fettered by com pensation and junction tonnages, conceded in the infancy o f these undertakings, to the influenc e of opposing parties. Th e Canal Companies so circumstanced will do well, in a friendly and conciliatory spirit, to ineet and arrange these antiquated modes of deriving income, and thus place their tonnages upon a sound and rational footing, as well as by doing away with such local arrangements as are vexatious to the trader, and which often, without benefit to themselves, are injurious and irritating to the Companies immediately connected with the trade of their district. Canal Companies must have no petty jealousies, but unite in affording every facility to the transit of the trade of this increasingly commercial country. The writer of these observations is so strongly impressed with their importance, that he hopes they may commend them selves to every Canal Proprietor, and to the practical opera tions of every Canal Committee and Canal general meeting in the kingdom. A CANAL PROPRIETOR. April 2, 1838. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM AND GRAND JUNTION RAILWAYS.—We have heard, with much pleasure, that there is no longer any foundation for the opinion that any misunderstanding exists between the Directors of these two Companies. On the contrary, we are assured that the mode to be adopted at Birmingham, when the lines are each finished there, for the transfer of the passengers and their luggage from the ene line to the other, has been satisfactorily arranged ; but that, until the permanent station of the Grand Junction Company, contiguous to that of the London and Birmingham Company in Curzon-street, has been completed, the inconvenience of going from one station to th e o th er i n omnibuses, as at present, is unavoidable. We understand, also, that the Directors of the London and Birmingham line are at present much restricted in their power of changing the hours of departure and arrival of their tr a i ns , on account of the engineering operations still in progress on those parts of the line which have been recently opened ; and from come difficulties connected with the horsing of the coaches on the road between Denbigh-hall and Rugby, a work in which, we believe, no fewer than 700 horses are already engaged. It is their intention, however, as soon as these difficulties are removed, to curtail any unnecessary detention in Birmingham ; and it is proper to add, that as the Directors of this Company have made all their arrangements with the view of insuring the most perfect punctuality in the arrival of the trains, as well at the intermediate stations as at the two termini, the most prompt measures have been taken to remove every cause of detention which the first few days of the working of the line brought to light; and it may reasonably be expected that in a very short time the travelling upon it will be attended with as few inconveniences as are compatible with a partial opening. We believe we may add, that it is intended to set on one or two additional trains immediately, with an especial re ference to the convenience of travellers from Manchester to iverpool.—Nanchester Paper. ESCAPE OF THREE FELONS FROM THE COMP- Tan.—This morning, at an early hour, a report was prevalent in the neighbourhood that three prisoners had effected their escape from the Giltspur-street Compter, one of whom was the Honourablo Algernon Curzon, the son of Lord Tenyham, but the latter statement had no foundation in truth. On in- quiry at the prison it was ascertained that the names of the fugitives are as follow :—John Humphries, sentenced by the Central Criminal Court to hard labour for two years; Rich ard Gifford, for one year ; and John Murray, for six months. The interior of the prison is undergoing great alterations, and additional walls being built, which, with the quantity of scaf folding erected, rendered the escape a work of no great diffi culty, as in fact ropes, and other matters in use among the workmen, render ascent and descent easy. It appears that when they got to the summit of the wall, they let themselves down into the yard of the Magpie and Stump Tavern, New gate-street. From hence they must have got into the street through the Tavern passage, but the inmates say they know nothing of the fact. The prisoner Gifford is the man who a few weeks since was connected with the carpet-bag robbery. _ _ NAPLES ; APRIL 7.—Monsignore Fabio Maria Arguirre, Archbishop of Tarso, had on the Ist of this month the honour to be received by his Majesty at a public audience, in the presence of the Royal family, the foreign ambassadors, and the whole Court, to deliver his credentials. The Nuncio had afterwards the honour to be presented to the Queen Mother. It is said that the iron railroad from Naples to Portici is to be completed in twelve or fourteen months, and that it will only take eight minutes to travel that distance. Since the steam boats have recommenced their voyages to Sicily and Malta, the number of passengers to and from those islands is very great ; each vessel has hundreds of them on board. The last steam-boat from Malta brought word that Dr. Bowring left Alexandria at the beginning of March, to travel the way of Syria, Constantinople, and Vienna, to Italy, and to visit this city. MR. BULLER.—Every body knows that the Tories have been hunting Mr. Buller for several months past, because he has, in his approbation of the principle of justice to Ire land, proved himself, as they say, an enemy to the Protestant Church. At the High Church Meeting, held at the Subscrip tion Rooms, which was presided over by Earl Devon, the Bishop of this Diocese stated that Mr. Buller had gone to him and voluntarily offered one hundred and fifty pounds a year, out of his own pocket, towards the support of a clergy_ man in the large and populous parish of St. Thomas, near this city, and that this sum had been regularly paid. What will the Tories say to this?— Western Times. THE FRENCH ARMT.—Marshal Grouchy and General d'Ambrugeau having complained, at the sitting of the Chamber of Peers of Tuesday, of the unpardonable neglect of Government in not organizing a powerful reserve destined to e;nforce the army, in case of emergency ; the Minister of War, General Bernard, replied, that France had a reserve of 140,000 men, who might be rendered transferable withi n a short space of time, and incorporated with the active army. That formidable reserve, however (according to the Courrier Francais), consists entirely of conscripts, left in their homes, without any military instruction whatsoever, and who have not even been once assembled in a camp or garrison town. The Courrier adds, that no army of reserve exists, nor can exist in France, so long as the Government shall be afraid of the, population. An army, in the eyes of Louis Phillippe, i s a , force intended rather to keep down the people than to defend them. Any reserve that should sympathize with the citizens; he would view as a danger rather than a support. When the example of Prussia is recommended to him for imitation, the, King replies, that her landwehr had, on several occasions, ex.' pressed a desire to obtain a Constitution, and that after the revolution of July, 1830, the citizen-soldiers who composed it sang the Illarseillaise. It is on this account, says the Cour rier, that no armed reserve can be organized in France ; that a portion of the National Guard was not rendered moveable after the three days, and that this last institution has been suffered to dwindle away, all over the country, with the sole exception of Paris. GREENWICII.—We have traces of a Royal resi dence at this place so early as the year 1300, when Edward I. made an offering of 7s. at each of the holy crosses in the cha pel of the Virgin Mary, Greenwich, and the Prince made an offering of half that sum. Henry IV. dates his will 1408, from his manor of Greenwich. Henry VII. resided much at this place, where his second son (afterwards Henry VIII.), and his third son, Edmund Tudor (created Duke of Somer set), were born. Hen. VIII. from his partiality to it bestowed great cost upon Greenwich, till he made it, as Lambard says, " a pleasant, perfect, and princely palace." During his reign it became one of the principal scenes of that festivity for which his Court was celebrated. King Henry's marriage with his first Queen, Katherine of Arragon, was solemnized at Green wich, June 5, 1510. In 1512 he kept his Christmas " here with great and plentiful cheer," and again in 1513 " with great solemnity, dancing, disguisings, and mummers, in a most princely manner." At this celebrity was introduced the first masquerade even seen in England. Edward VI. kept his Christmas at Greenwich in 1552-3, George Ferrers, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, being " Lorde of the merrie disporte." This amiable Monarch closed his short reign at Greenwich Palace on the 6th of July following. Qneen Mary was born here February 8, 1515, and Queen Elizabeth, September 7, 1533. It was afterwards her favourite residence. MATRIMONY EXTRAORDINARY.—A few days ago, a couple, whose united ages amount to 140 years, Was married at the Holy Trinity Church ; after the ceremony, the bride, whose appearance bespoke very feeble health, as well as advanced years, informed the vicar that he had married her twenty years ago. " Indeed l" replied the vicar. ‘, y es ," re joined the old dame, " and what is more remarkable, it was to the same man." It appeared that when she was about forty years of age she was deserted by her husband, and ten years afterwards, not having heard anything of him, married her present spouse, by whom she had several children ; after which she heard of her first husband being still alive, and broke off her connection with her second : eventually she received in formation of the death of her first husband, and returned to the society of him whom she had married when she only supposed herself a widow, and they had since continued to live together; but not being satisfied as to the legality of their union, they had at length resolved to bo again united by due course of law. More recently, at another church in this town, a youth ful couple appeared at the hymeneal altar ; and during the reading pf the service, on the bridegroom producing - the ring, the bride expectant was found to be in a profound sleep ! Hull Advertiser. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1838 NEGRO EMANCIPATION. GREAT MEETING AT BATH. (BY EXPRESS.) A very large and highly-respectable Meeting of the inha bitants of Bath took place :yesterday, in the great room of the Guildhall, for the purpose of adopting petitions to Parliament, praying for the immediate and unqualified emancipation of the Negro Apprentices in the West Indies. The Meeting was crowded in every part, and there were a large number of ladies present, who appeared to take a deep interest in the proceedings. Among the gentlemen on the platform we observed S. Barrow, Esq., Mayor of Bath; W. Thomas Blair, Esq., late Mayor; - Williams, Esq. ; Alderman A. Gordon; Jones Kingsbury; Henry Godwin, Esq. ; Revs. W. Jay, Richards, Martin, Cater, Jackson, Spencer, Bevan; William Hunt, Esq. ; Richard Griffiths, Esq. ; George Thompson ; John Smith, Esq. ; R. Perfect, Esq. ; Messrs. Palmer, Pearson, Cox, Golledge, &c. &c. On the motion of Admiral GORDON, seconded by Mr. JACKSON, WILLIAM THOMAS BLAIR, Esq., was unanimously voted to the Chair. The CHAIRMAN said, I cannot hesitate to obey the call of the meeting to take the chair on this occasion, though I was in hopes we should have been favoured with the presence of a gentleman to-day, who, had he been here, would have been requested to preside—l allude to Colonel Gore Langton.— ( Cheers.) He was applied to for this purpose, and though he is prevented from attending the meeting, I am happy to say he is most cordially with us in sentiment and purpose ; and in the course of the proceedings I shall have the pleasure of reading to you his reply. It is with very mingled feelings of pain and pleasure that I meet you again on the affecting question that brings us together to-day.—(llear, hear.) When we consider that a Government professedly liberal, and a House of Commons supposed to represent the opinions of the nation, have turned a deaf car to the prayers of an united people, and to the claims of those who are bowed down under a cruel and unrighteous domination—when we find them taking side with the wrong-doer and the oppressor, and settling every difficulty at the expense of the oppressed—when we find them avowing the un-Christian and unconstitutional sentiment, that one man may have a right to the forced and uncompensated labour of another man, and upholding all the immoralities and atrocities inseparable from a state of slavery, however modified—it is impossible not to be filled with shame, with grief, and indignation.—(Loud cheers.) But when I see before me such an assembly as the present, responding so promptly to the call of humanity and justice—when I have witnessed, as I have dune within the last few days, overflow ing meetings in two such important towns as Liverpool and Birmingham, consisting of 4,000 or 5,000 persons at each, without a dissentient voice at either—and when the whole country is moving from the centre to the extremities, it shows that the heart of the nation is sound, and augurs well for the speedy and complete success of our sacred cause.-( Renewed cheers.) True, we have sustained a temporary defeat; but when we take into account all the circumstances of the case— that the leading men of both the great parties in the House of Commons were against us—that our case was not debated on its own merits, but was artfully and unfairly met by the" G overnment Bill, contrary to a virtual promise made in the House of Lords—and that the debate terminated abruptly and unexpectedly just after the able and plausible speech of Mr. Gladstone—when all these particulars, I say, are fairly :neighed, we may regard the division not only as a moral tri umph, but as the earnest of complete success the next time the question is brought forward ; and this it is likely to be in less than a month from the present period.—(Hear, and cheers.) The hope of our opponents is, that public feeling, after being wrought to so high a pitch of enthusiasm. must subside, that wearied with excitement, and discouraged by defeat, we sh a ll a b a ndon the cause as hopeless.—( Cries of " Never.") This was one of the arguments made use of by Sir George Gr e y to induce the House of Commons to pass his Bill. He told them if they did so, it would stifle agita tion, and allay the ferment of the public mind. Sir George Grey may have read many things, but I fear he has not read the signs of the times, or else he heeds them not.—( Hear. ) He greatly mistakes the men who are engaged in this cause, if he thinks that like truckling and time-serving politicians they will advocate the cause of truth and lawful liberty to-day, and desert it to-morrow; and be as much mistakes them if he thinks they are men who love agitation for its own sake, and the strife of party politics, or that they have any selfish and ambitious aims of their own to serve. No they are amongst the best friends of peace and order, men of high moral and religious feeling, who arc generously giving their money and their time to serve the cause of the oppressed, and, who, I be lieve, would peril their lives rather than desert the cause or sacrifice their principles.—(Great applause.) If we abandon the negro now, after we have contributed to raise his expecta tions, cur conduct will be base and cruel in the highest degree. His patient endurance is now sustained by hope, but tell him that his friends in England can do no more for him, that after a fruitless struggle they have resigned him for the remaining term of the apprenticeship to the tender mercies of his task master, and you plunge him at once into despair, or rouse him into dangerous and fearful excitement.—( Hear, hear.) No 1 let us rather plight our faith afresh to our fettered bre thren, and like a celebrated general of antiquity, who swore on the altars of his country eternal hostility to her foes, so may we in a far better cause, and with holier purposes, and with no weapons in our hands but those of truth and reason, regis ter this day as in the sight of God, our solemn determination, never to relax in our exertions till slavery in reality as well as in name, shall cease to exist in every dependency of the Bri tish Crown—and in every country in the world.--(Vehement cheering.) Surrounded as I ens by gentlemen who are prepared to lay our whole case before you, I wish only to make one other observation by way of meet ing art objection that is sometimes made to our proceed ings, and I fear by some whom we have been . accustomed to rank amongst the best friends of the negro.—( Hear, hear.) It is said that our cause is political, or that it has become so in the hands of the present conductors. This we altogether deny, and call for the evidence. O n t he part of the Society in Bath—on the part of the Central Committee in London— ott the part of 400 delegates lately assembled there, repre senting as they did the anti-slavery body throughout the em pire, I confidently deny the truth of the allegation.—(Hear.) That here and there may be found an individual advocating the cause, in or out of Parliament, for the sake of popularity, or to serve some party purposes, is saying no more than ni•ly be said of any cause that was ever advocated by human agency ; but to say that this implicates the devoted and excellent men who are the main-stay and prop of this movement, or that it affects in any way our righteous cause itself, is about as just as if any one should endeavour to disparage and impugn Chris tianity because a Judas was found amongst the Apostles, or a Saul amongst the Prophets—( Hear, hear) ; and refusing to co-operate with the Society on this ground is about as wise and humane as it would be to refuse to unite in extinguishing I fire with men whose principks and conduct we might in many rea ct, the At the meeting at Liverpool on Friday last, the Rev. Mr. APNeile showed most clearly that a ppealed to us, he said, on the principles of we might co-operate with any man in this cause without there being the slightest compromise or sacrifice of any one prin ciple, religious or political, on either side.—( Hear, hear, hear.) It our common humanity—( Hear, hear)--and claimed an interest in the breast of every man.—( Cheers.) It is, in fact, m th a e nt , the Clarksons, and the same just and holy cause it ever was, and I believe the eitrsfoeracrelsi,esitffreiietthidesr, hasthe Sliarpes descended on those who are now labouring so industriously in the same vacation. It is no sectarian or party question, though it claims the support N le Vi o lb f of men of every party, and emphatically of those who profess to receive the Divine injunction to love their neighbour as themselves, and to do to others as they would be done by.— ( Great cheering.) The Rev. Tiros. SPENCER, in moving the first resolution, observed that it was hardly necessary for him to disclaim being actuated in his present course by political motives. He had approved of many o f the measures of her 'Alajesty' s Mi n i s t ers , of theirconduct in but he could not approve in stance, which ho was willingadmit proceeded upon mis taken views. He believed they meant well, but that they were biassed by those aro und them; that they did not know the sentiments of the public at lar g e ; and that they were not sufaently acquainted with the principles of eternal jus tice; and stood too much in awe of the opinions of a few grea t and influential men.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") H e e should really be ashamed of himself if he did not cordially, agree with the principles set forth in the resolution he held in his han. It as an easy atter t blame absent persons, and they should w m recollect that neither the Ministers nor the slave-owners were there to defend themselves; but as Lord Brougham and Miss Martineau had observed, it was a very different thing to speak of slavery in England and in America.—( Cheers.) He had come forward not to hold , contention with the slave-holders or with her Majesty's Mini sters, but with the people of the celebrated city of Bath, and in doing so, he was only following the example set him in the Scriptures. There they saw Moses holding contention, not with foreign foes but with the Israelites—they saw Stephen when dying reproving the people—and St. Paul reproving the sorcerer in the name of the All-righteous ; and if their Lord and Master, when on earth, did not speak against Caesar or the Heathen, but against the Pharisees, the Lawyers, and the Scribes, he would say in like manner to the people of Bath, they had as much to do with the case of which they all complained as any people he knew of. lie would remind them of the speech of Mr. Borthwick in their town a few years ago in defence of slavery and the slave owners, and of the liberal subscription which had been entered into by them to purchase a piece of plate with the Borthwick arms engraved upon it. He (Mr. Spencer) was present when they had not only refused to hear the d e f ence o f t h e R ev . Mr. Knibb, the Baptist Mi nister, but had ill used and ill treated him. Their esteemed Chairman, M r . Blair, presided on that occasion, and would corroborate bis statement. He held in his hand a statement of the proceedings on that occasion, in the form of a pamphlet, by the Rev. J. Stanley, and they would be astonished to h ear that the peopl e o f Bath listened with credulity to the state ments of Mr. Borthwick, that the slaves in the West Indies were well fed, with clothes fit for a nobleman —that the work was very easy that they had an hour for breakfast, two hours for dinner—and that the young slaves under fourteen years of age never worked at all—that in the negro's house there n-as generally a mahogany side board, a pair of silver candlesticks, a good sofa, and six mahogany chairs—(Laughter)—that there was generally a four post bedstead in their bed-rooms—and that the plan ters' wives and daughters were in the habit of instructing the young negrocs and negresses, and " Teaching the young idea how to shoot." ..—(Much laughter.) He remembered further Mr. Borthwick having stated that such was the kindness of their masters, that when the negroes gave balls, as frequently happened, their masters and mistresses waited upon them as servants, in order to contribute all in their power to their amusements. Why had the secret been let out at last ? Because all the money had been paid. The people of Bath were simple enough to swallow all these extraordinary statements, and therefore he was warranted in saying that they had sanctioned the payment of that large sum of money to the West Indian slave owners. —( Hear, hear.) He would now remind them of the measure of justice dealt out on that occasion to the Rev. Mr. Knibb and his party. Mr. Borthwick, when delivering his lec j tures, had stated that the Baptist leaders were very bad fel -1 lows, but That Mr. Knibb was especially such as he was, a-self convicted liar, a foul libeller, and deserved hanging. Mr. Knibb afterwards met Mr. Borthwick in that town, and in a defence of two hours replied fully to every one of the charges brought against him. Mr. Borthwick denied that he had ever abused Mr. Knibb, or spoken ill of him, and not having completed his reply, he was allowed an additional half hour by the Chairman ; and when Mr. Knibb rose there was an uproar from the opposite party, which prevented a single word from being heard. The Chairman actually left the Chair, and an other gentleman took it, although Mr. Borthwick and his party had actually refused him that measure of justice.— (Hear. ) He would say then that great injustice, great folly, and great delusion had been practised in Bath, and persons had been induced to subscribe largely to the champion of a bad cause. Had that not been the case—had they not sanc tioned such statements, it was very possible that the evils they now all lamented would never have occurred. He would, therefore, call upon them, although he was aware that many of those present had their hands clean, and had never touched slave money, or subscribed for the presentation of that piece of plate—still living in the same place, he called upon them, more than any other town, city, or place, to redeem their characters, by doing justice to the unhappy slave, whose cause they had on the former occasion abandoned for that of his brutal master.—(Cheers.) Perhaps after all, Providence was only hardening the hearts of these Pharoahs in order to bring down its summary vengeance upon them—perhaps they might yet see on their shores a Red sea, and the people separated from their task masters by the hcruest assertion of their rights ; and he sincerely hoped if justice did not come from any other quarter, that Providence would work it out for them in its own inscrutable ways.—(Great cheering.) He felt much pleasure in moving the first resolution . . The Rev. W. BEVAN, Secretary to the Liverpool Anti slavery Society, seconded the resolution. As their Chair man had, on Friday last, very properly and honourably re presented the feelings of the people of Bath, at the meeting in the former town, he (Mr. Bevan) now s! - .cod there as the representative of the people of Liverpool, rho were united with them by a community of interests, and a feclng of sym pathy in the promotion of that great national causa. As his Reverend predecessor had addressed himself to local circum stances, it became his (Mr. Bevan's) duty to address himself to the resolution which was before them. He begged, in the ' first place, as the friend of the negro, most solemnly and &s -tinctly to disavow any political or party feeling ; and he re joiced to know that, in the town he came from, all those who were the antipodes on every other question, joined heart and hand in helping forward the cause of humanity, the cause of religion, the cause of justice, and the cause of God.—(Cheers. ) In addressing himself to the question, therefore, he begged to be distinctly understood as casting no imputation upon the motives or characters of any of those parties who had interested themselves in the opposition with which they had had to con tend. They had to deal with their conduct, and not with them- selves. They had to deal with one particular point of their administration, and not with their general system of policy. —( Hear, hear.) The resolution set forth that Sir G. Strick land's motion had been defeated "in consequence of the op position of the Government to that measure of sound policy and justice ;" and that opposition stood upon rather peculiar ground—Lord Glenelg admitting the manifold evils in the working of the Abolition Act, and Sir George Grey dis tinctlydenying many of the admissions of the Chief Sc. cretary, and in some instances throwing ridicule upon the strong and irrefragable testimony advanced in its support. Upon these conflicting admissions and denials the measure had been made to stand. That measure had been brought before the House for second reading under circumstances calculated to excite suspicion and distrust, since it was made to appear that although Sir George Strickland's motion had priority in point of time, the other as a Government measure was to have priority in point of intrinsic importance ; and while they admitted the expediency of the piiuciple of Sir George Strickland's motion, they were not to regard it to the detriment of the measure the Government was about to bring to maturity.—( Hear, hear.) It was well known, and had been admitted by men of Parliamentary experience, that that superinduction of the 2d reading the Bill of the Government would seriously damage and endanger the motion of Sir G. Strickland. The onus of such a step rested with the Colonial administration, and upon them he believed it must be east. The measure thus brought forward by the Government proved the validity of the evidence tendered by the friends of the ne groes, and in the very first clause an admission was contained that a proper division of time had not taken place—that it had been illegally and cruelly distributed under the Abolition Act. The infraction of the time allowed to the negroes was recognised in the second clause, and in the third clause there was ample proof that the adequate maintenance and customary allowances to females had been withdrawn.—( Hear, hear.) lie found in it also an admission of practices of the greatest cruelty and injustice—that the manumission tribunals were defective, and that the classification was unjust, and in many cases totally neglected. With these admissions on the very face of the Bill, he met its promoters, and he contended that the case of the abolitionists was made out—not only by the large amount of documentary evidence from official sources— ncit only from the speeches of the Colonial Secretary himself, but also by the very measure for which the West India inte rest in Parliament voted, and in voting for which they gave the lie to their own denial of the truth of the statements put forth by the Anti-slavery Society and its friends.—( Cheers.) They stood by that measure in a triumphant position. Parlia ment not only recognized the statements which had been made, but they admitted them in a shape which permitted of no de nial, and suffered no exception.—( Hear,' hear.) The enquiry then was, these evils having been admitted by the Act, what did they propose to remedy these evils, and remove these abuses? They found most distinctly that inynany clauses of the Act, there was a want of executory principle, and in others much imperfection either in their spirit or letter, as would make them fail in affording any adequate protection to those for whom that protection was sought.—(Hear.) Under the Act great responsibility was imposed upon the Governor—he who acts upon his discretion as he thought fit—and yet, he was to be held responsible for acting according to the dictates of his own discretion and judgment, but he was still further re st ricted, and shackled by another power. He was not to ex ercise his own discretion, unless by and with the advice of the Privy Council, a body composed of persons resident in the colonies, mixed up in its concerns, and it might be personally and deeply interested in the continuance of the abuses of the system. If the Governor was a humane and righteous man, be would be obstructed by those otherwise disposed ; and if he were not an honourable and honest man, then he fell in with the views of the planters, and the abuses were perpetuated under the new Act.—( Cheers. ) Who, he would ask, would under take the office of Governor with such a responsibility and so trammelled—liable to be looked upon with suspicion, either by the people of this country, or by the planters in the colony ? But not only was the measure Unjust in its principle, but in several instances of complaint there was no adequate provi sion made for their removal. He would turn to the subjects of regulation and classification, and it had been matter of cons- plaint that while the Abolition Law provided that parties only duly registered might be held in bondage, there were thou sands retained in that servile condition who bad never been registered, whom Lord Glenelg himself admitted ought to be set free—he alluded to the 2,000 negroes, concerning whom he had sent a despatch to the Governor of the Mauritius, and who were, for aught they knew, still illegally detained in a state of bondage.—( Hear, hear.) There was nothing to meet that in the Act. The classification had been also a subject of complaint. The non-preedials, under the operation of the Act, were to be liberated in 1833, and the prmdials in 1840. Now by the confusion or neglect of classification,' it was well known that many proprietors were holding in the prospect of future years of bondage many persons who were not legally included in the class, by bringing non-prmdials into the prandial class. How was that to be remedied? He found that the classification was to be revised as in Jamaica. There was a certain test by which that revision was to be' made, and that test was the classification law which Lord Glenelg himself disavowed. The test sent to the Commis sioners of Compensation regulated the amount of compensa tion for the two classes, and he held that if the owner received a just ansount of compensation, the apprentice was, at the ex piration of the time limited by it, entitled to his freedom. He found that the Act disallowed by Lord Glenelg passed the House of Assembly in March last, and Lord Glenelg then expressed his gratification that it had passed. On the Ist of June it came into operation, and on the 30th of June its ope ration ceased, and then, after the lapse of time between March and September, after the expression o f hi s L or d s hip' s grea t gratification, he wakes up from his slumbering, and on the 2d of September takes no less than six distinct objections to this very Act, and the consequence inevitably appeared to be that the Act must be disallowed. But what must be their surprise to find the very Act so disallowed raised from the sepulchre in which it was entombed, and now sent out for the guidance of the Governor and the colonists ?—(oh, oh 1) He was at a loss to know why that substitution should have been made. It was further stated that the manumission was rendered difficult, and it was proposed to remedy that defect. The slave was entitled to purchase his freedom whether the the master consented or not • for that purpose two Justices, one of them speci a l a nd the other local, were to form a tribu nal, and to call in a third Magistrate if they disagreed. That had been open to great abuse, and Lord Glenelg proposed to remedy that in the 6th clause, by appointing official umpires, whose award should be final ; but there was no restriction or stipulation as to who these umpires were to be. They might be planters or overseers, the mercenaries and tools of the plan ters, and thus Lord Glenelg proposed to throw the appren tices upon the tender mercies of the cruel planters.—( Hear, hear.) It appeared further that the negro suffered a loss by the infraction of his time, and Lord Glenelg met that by enacting that the Governor might appropriate and distribute the legal working hours; but there was nothing to prohibit the planter from extending the period to nine or ten hours daily.—( Hear, hear.) Furthermore, it was complained that the negroes had been subjected to ,reiterated and galling cruelty, and Lord Glenelg provides that parties treated cruelly might be discharged from servitude ; but it did not say that these persons must be discharged—it left it entirely in his discretion, and the poor negro was as far as ever from a remedy. There was still further difficulty in the case of a negro wishing to establish a complaint against his master. The special justice was not allowed to give notice of the time he would visit au estate, and the negro could have no opportunity of arranging his witnesses, and he came before the special justice without due preparation. They all knew the quirks and quibbles of the gentlemen of the law, and he asked what hope the negro had of substantiating his case under such difficulties ?—( Hear, hear.) If the facts bro. leht, forward were all substantially true, but that, from some tes h nicality, they did riot fully make out a case, then not only wa .s the complaint dismissed but, from that moment, the com plainant and defendant changed places, and on the charge of having made a frivolous complaint he was to the full infliction of a penalty, according to the discretion of tire spe cial justice. He had a right, then, to object to the terms in which many of these clauses were framed, for, although Lord Glenclg told the apprentice, that if cruelly treated he might be discharged, still, although the cruelty may be ever so fla gitious, although the injustice may he ever so galling, what power was then in the hands of the oppressed negro to say he should be discharged ?—it all rested in the discretion of the Governor, by and with the advice of the Privy Council. —(Hear.) Then with respect to penalties—thos:s upon the .- neg Toes had been increased, while those upon the pla'nter had been reduced. For neglect of clothing, under the siave Code the planter was liable to a fine of 51.—it was now AO thing. For not providing adequate grounds, under the Slav's! , Code it was formerly 20/.—it was now 51. For not allowing due time for the cultivation of his ground to the negro, it was formerly 201., and was now reduced to 40s.—( Hear.) For not giving proper maintenance, it was formerly 201., and now only 40s. For cruelty and the illegal imposition of task work, the penalty was formerly 1001. aid 12 months' imprison.. ment, whereas the penalty was now reduced to 5/., and the imprisonment to 12 days.—( Cries of " Sheme.") He would ask, was not the apprentice more in need of r,rotection under this system, than when he was a slave?—( Heess ) And was not Sir Lionel Smith's assertion true, that the condition of the negro was worse now than formerly ?—(Heir, hear.) Without, therefore, offering any opinion upon the oths'r mat ters of policy of her Majesty's Government, he would say that he held in the most utter disgust, and viewed with the greatest . dissatisfaction, the conduct of men calling themselves the friends of liberty, the friends of Christianity, and the friends of truth. " Let them tell it not in Gath, or publish it not in thestreets of Ascalon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, and the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph."—( Hear, hear. They were assembled there for a great constitutional purpose, for by the provisions of Lord Glenelg's own Act, it might be repealed or altered during the present Session of Parliament. • —(Cheers.) They were met to ask of the Legislature to re peal that Act, and to tell the Government that they were utterly disgusted with the measure—that they viewed all at tempts to amend slavery in the same light as an apology fo sin.—( Cheers.) It was nothing more than all attempt to es purchase the sympathies of the people, and by gulling them in that manner they hoped to have their anti-slavery feelings sea tered by the winds of heaven—they hoped to have the poor negroes deceived by a shadow and cajoled by a name.---( Hear and cheers.) He asked them as men pleading for the valuehl , right of their fellow-men—as Britons pleading for the free dom of those who were treading upon British soil, although they dwelt across the waves of the rolling Atlantic—he asked them as men maintaining the cause of freedom, and nis lSfting its standard on high among the nations of the „ if -a l —he conjured them, as members of a Christian Church as fl e ece whose hopes rested upon Him, whose power was above all cartaily power, and who ordered all things according to His good plecsure; who would soon remove every evil that human depravity or Satanic invention might frame,—as they were pledged to .maintain his truth, and to carry forward the vie tory and triustelph of true religion ; he called on them to stand forward and declare that day that in spite of ministers and potentates—in sjrite of Legislatures and Governments—they wore prepared to stand by those principles of truth, o righteousness, of retsgion, and of piety, on which they ha., hitherto rested their'alaims, and that they were neither to be drawn from them by the deceitfulness of the crafty, nor driven from them by the power of the mighty.—(Much cheering.) The CHAIRMAN observed that before he put the resolution, he would read the letter to which he had before alluded, • which he had received from Colonel Gore Langton:— Grosvenor-severe, April 18, 1838. • Mr Dealt Six—The object of the meeting to which you request my presence, as Chairman, is one which I have ever advocated with m best abilities whenever I have had opportunity of doing s.-); and th • heartfelt interest still alive in my breast for the poor enslaved negro, would have brought me to Bath, on the 24th, had my engagem,,nts per mitted me the time, which, at my advanced period of life, is nc:essar for such a long journey in such inclement weather. Your application afforded me much gratification, by testifying lb sense which you, and the other Gentlemen of the Anti-Slavery Cvra.: mittee entertain of my zeal In the cause ; and leads me to hope that though lam unable myself to be present at the meeting, some Gentle- .- man will do justice to my feelings by the expression of my sentiments, and of my determination to use every exertion in my power to give effect in Parliament to the wishes of the meeting. Believe me, my dear Sir, most faithfu'ly yours. WILLIAM GORE .C.ANGTON. Wm. Thomas Blair, Esq., Bathwick-hill. Mr. G. Tnossesots then came forward and was receive& with loud cheering. He said—our question to-day is in respect to the condition of some hundreds of thousands of immortal beings held in bondage, base, and cruel, and unchrisvian, under the term negro apprenticeship, in the various colonies of the British crown.—(Hear, hear. )—The parties to whom csur present question refers, are, it should ever be remembered, men in a like position with ourselves, claiming our regards, 11-0 matter where they dwell, inasmuch as ever) thing interest ing to the welfare of human beings is interesting to us. Our question, therefore, seems, in the first place, as the friends of mankind with regard to the regions where they dwell, cr the Government whose subjects they are—our question, .1 repeat, es regarding mankind at large, is one of deep interest acid im portance.—( Hear, hear.) They appear before us to-dal' in the aspect of fellow-subjects—unoffending, rational, peace able, loyal, meritorious, subjects—of the British Government, and therefore it becomes a question of patriotism, as we love those who are subject to the same sway, and as we desire to diffuse throughout the provh'sces of the British empire the blessings of the varied condition wider which we live oho in-,' habit these islands—we are called upon to day to pity the negro of the West Indies, and to see that he is not spoiled of those privileges which it is 'the design of the British Constitution to secure and to peepetnate unimpaired for the benefit of all the subjects of this realme—( Cheers. ) But they appear before us under another aspecS—( Hear, hear)—thousands of them are our fellow-Christians, nri.itcd to us in the bonds of Church communion, partaking with . es of the common hope of everlasting life; and it is certainly the especial duty of those who recognise in them the image of Geri. and look to share with them the blessings of immortality—l say it is the especial duty of such to remember their fellow- '. saints who are in bonds, and endeavour to put an end to the enslavement of those who are freemen of the Lord.— (Cheers.) They stand before us in another aspect this is a question that does not merely appeal to our humanity nor, to our patriotism—nor to our Christian sympathies—but to our justice. ( Hear, hear.) These parties stand before us to-day as injured men and women in their own persons, and as the representatives of millions, upon whose ashes they daily - and hourly tread.—( Hear, hear.) We have wronged them, and they stand before us to-day, not to solicit a favour, but to - demand a right.—( Cheers.) And what we have to give is not to be given by us in the attitude of condescending - suf . ferance—not doled out as something supererogatory—but to b• extended, if possible, on our knees, in the atti tude of prayer and penitence—( Hear, hear)—to give back to men, who never should have been robbed, tha . which is their human right, and inheritance. Our question. has this further aspect—it stands before us as connecting wit the redemption from human bondage, from personal slavery - of six millions of beings held within the confines of what is called Christendom; and every thing we do for our colonies will tell either for good or for evil upon the colonies of all other Christian countries. It stands connected, too, with that nefarious and infernal traffic which has let loose the fangs of war, of pestilence, and of rapine, on the unoffended shores ' of Africa—Africa, bleeding at every pore I Africa, rent by intestine wars 1 Africa, robbed of her children, and drenched in the blood of her own slaughtered tribes l—( Hear, . hear, and loud cheering.) This question, then, comes before us not as a party political question—not as a question of temporary moment—not as one that may be attended to or disregarded according to our pleasure—not as one even na tional in its aspect, and in its importance; but as concerning every quarter of the globe on which we tread—does it not con- . ,tern Asia, whose unsophisticated husbandmen aro even now enslaved, and whose enslavement by millions is meditated in the dark Councils of the sugar making vampires of the western world 2—( Cheers.) Are not the millions of India concerned in this question? Is not America concerned? Are not the -millions who waste upon the plains of CaroPria, or pine upon the banks of the Mississippi, to catch the shout of freedom, and the cries of jubilee, which are wafted across the Antilles, wherever men do justice or love mercy, and send Britain on her march upon the mountain waves to set them free—and is not the question interesting to Africa which never can know - peace—Africa, which never can rejoice in the light of Christianity—Africa, which never can share in the legiti mate commerce of the world, nor even be recognized by Christian nations until this foul blot is purged not only from the dominions of Britain but from every territory belonging to every Christian country on the face of the globe. And is it not the cause of Europe—the cause of mighty England— the cause of polished France—the cause of superstitious Spain —the cause of Sweden, of Holland, of Denmark ; arid of Portugal? And can Europe ever stand distinguished among the other sections of the globe for humanity' or Christian virtue: while her soldiers and her princes, her merchants, her mariners, and her shopkeepers, all, with one accord, combine in an unhal lowed compact to scourge Africa—enslave India—and curse America. Deeply grieved am I, Sir, that there should be oc casion for our meeting to-day.—( Hear, hear.) For why are we met? To broach strange doctrines? No. To enlighten or convert our country ? No. To put our wishes prayers into Parliamentary language for the first time ? To prove our case and make it plain that the negro is an en- - slaved and injured man? No. To spreal our case before the Government, that they may read with pitying eye, the story of the wrongs of the India negro—and reading, feel—and feel-.' ing, act—and acting, deliver ?—No. —( Hear.) Our case is made out—our evidence is complete—the Sturges, and ' Williams, and Sligos—and Monserrat, and Autigua, hare all shed a flood of light upon this question, and rendered it plain to the meanest understanding that political economy, that na-s tional honour, that piety, that safety—that every thing that appeals to interest, to humanity, or religion--demands the. instant, entire, unqualified, and everlasting settlement of this: great question.—( Loud cheers.) Why , do We meet here to-; day ? To arouse the Government by the clamour of faction ? No. Meet we to-day to put forth the hand of spoliatios ? No,. Meet we to-day in the naine of our \Vest India fellow-citizens Z. Nothing of the kind. Meet we to-day to exalt one party, o r debase another ? No. To criminate, or to recriminate ? thing of the kind. To subserve the interests of a section of the political world, or advance our own pecuniary, and per sonal, and selfish, and sordid claims? Nothing of the kind. Never was agitation more holy. Never was a great public object pursued, under Heaven, high above the turbulent and corrupted atmosphere of party politics, and broils, and con tentions. More than this, our weapons are peaceful. They